Charley Pride

Today’s Country Legend was born March 18, in Sledge, Mississippi, the fourth of eleven children of poor sharecroppers.

His elder brother played Negro league baseball before entering the ministry.

his mother purchased him his first guitar at age 14, and he taught himself to play

he signed a contract with the Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. During that season, an injury caused him to lose the “mustard” on his fastball, and he was sent to the Yankees’ Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Later that season, while in the Negro leagues with the Louisville Clippers, two